Maybe I did not get the idea of the game, but I did not get what the theme fits in here much. It does makes sense based on the description, but it did not seem to translate much on the game itself - the numbers each turn seemed to be mostly random, save that to step into an 1 was you die next turn. Which to me kinda killed a bit of the brain-tease it seemed to be aiming for.
But I will assume this is a bug, or that I did not get the main idea properly. I can see how it was supposed to fit, and that to me matters too.